Obama Campaign Blasts Romney's First TV Ad As 'Deceitful'

[onehandle]

Source: Huffington Post

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney's first TV ad of the 2012 presidential campaign sparked immediate denunciations Monday night from President Obama's reelection campaign, which complained that the ad was "a deceitful and dishonest attack." The 60-second Romney ad quoted Obama as saying, "If we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose."

It sounds like Obama is talking about his own chances in 2012. But it's actually a clip of Obama mocking his 2008 opponent, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz), for not wanting to talk about the economy in the final stretch of that election. McCain's response to the collapse of the financial sector in the fall of 2008 is widely cited as a contributing factor to his loss. The full Obama quote, included in a Romney press release as part of an Oct. 16, 2008 speech at a Londonderry, N.H., campaign stop, was this: "Senator McCain's campaign actually said, and I quote, 'If we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose.'"

The fast-moving ad does situate Obama's comment in 2008 by beginning with the statement on screen: "On Oct. 16, 2008, Barack Obama visited New Hampshire." Obama's reelection campaign spokesman Ben Labolt called the Romney ad "a deceitful and dishonest attack." "While the President brought us back from the brink of another depression and is fighting everyday to restore economic security for the middle class, Mitt Romney opposes the President's plan to create 2 million jobs and instead proposes a return to the same economic policies that led to the recession," Labolt said in an email to The Huffington Post.

The Obama campaign's howls of protest were joined by the Democratic National Committee, which sent out two press releases condemning the attack within an hour, and by ThinkProgress, a liberal blog run by the Center for American Progress Action Fund. The Romney campaign dismissed the criticism, saying it clearly addressed the issue of Obama's language in a press release and blog post accompanying the new ad, which is slated to run for a week starting Tuesday.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/21/obama-campaign-romney-tv-ad_n_1106832.html

[truthisfreedom]

1. Wow, looks like interns are in charge over at the GOP.

We'll be laughing at them until it's over.

[Vattel]

2. What a slimy ad. Fuck Romney

[rgbecker]

3. Looks like Obama and DNC are focused on Romney.

Quick response team attacks Romney early on to set record straight in NH.

Gotta love it.

[Harry Monroe]

4. And so it begins...

Did we expect anything else? The political ads will get uglier and uglier as the election season wears on. And people will be disgusted and turned off and tune out in droves. And so on and so on.....

[GoCubsGo]

5. Mitt is projecting again...

It and lying the only things republicans are good at.

[snooper2]

6. They should have an ad that starts with that clip..

Then stop the clip, shove the still frame to the upper right corner...

And have somebody clearly explain how it was totally taken out of context and what a ignorant piece of shit Romney and his campaign are.

Can't run on anything so they lie... how it's actually pretty pathetic and we should feel a little sorry for him :rofl:

[warrior1]

7. Mitt, Mitt, Mitt.

When there is video of the comment hanging out there, you really should have you facts straight. You know facts right?

factsplural of fact (Noun)
Noun:

A thing that is indisputably the case.
Information used as evidence or as part of a report or news article.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. He's not deceitful enough

to win his party's nomination. Come on, Mitt, you're competing with real pros in the lying department like Newt.

[kiranon]

9. Dems need to use McCain in an ad saying those words and then

say that Mitt does not have the honesty or honor to be President.

[Roland99]

10. Video of McCain >>>>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVVIw7oZEyk


what a freakin' idiot.